Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom. - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihi… - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihi…
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity. - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the dest… - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the dest…
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a … - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a …
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations. - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck insi… - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck insi…
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of o… - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of o…
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